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mangle

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1. mangle - Noun

2. mangle - Verb

3. Mangle - Proper noun

Meaning

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

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Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love. Kelley Armstrong

Claire threw her head and laughed. "There are all kinds of men. The only kind that're worth anyone's time are the ones I can't mangle the first time out.”. Algis Budrys

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.' Cristin Milioti

The madman mutilates art work Source: Internet

The tourists murdered the French language Source: Internet

mangle the sheets Source: Internet

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